Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (12.2000(2001))

WEST SAQQARA

EGYPT

some of the objects initially in the shaft
found their way into the fill of the corridor.
Consequently, this pottery should be
connected with Shaft 37 rather than with
Corridor 1. Most of these sherds belong to
beer jars, some white-washed on the
exterior, and to bread moulds. The
assemblage also included three miniature
offering vessels: SQ 00-821 (Nile silt B 2,

string-cut from the wheel, uncoated)
SQ 00-823 and SQ 00-824 (Nile silt
B 1/2, cut from the wheell, uncoated). In
the absence of dating criteria for miniature
offering vessels,2) they should be dated by
the context. Considering that they were
part of an assemblage from the mid-Sixth
Dynasty, it should be assumed that they
come from this period.


Fig. 2. Ceramic deposit found under the harpoon in Corridor 1
(Drawing T. Rzeuska )
2) Compare alternative conceptions presented by M. Barta, Pottery Inventory and the Beginning of the IVth Dynasty,
GM 149 (1995); S. Marchand et M. Baud, La ceramique miniature d'Abou Rawash, BIFAO 96 (1996), 255-288, with a list
of miniature vessels.

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